The
Players

Ernie "The Hurricane" Steele - Our front man ( in a big kind of way). As a master of the blues harp, "Hurricane" is a Washington area legend. For more than two decades he has played with premier blues acts such as the Ernie Steele Band, Bluescasters, Afterhours, and the BluesRockers. Ernie wails from Baltimore, MD.

Steven VanNostrand- Lead Guitar and vocals, has been honing his 6 string skills since he was 10 years old, and his dedication to his craft is evidenced by his wizardly knack of making his Fender guitars scream in fiery fits of passion or gently weep. Tours of duty with NitroJack, the DangerTones and StratoFunk have made him known to audiences around the Maryland music scene and beyond, he now slings his Hendrix/Jeff Beck/Stevie Ray Vaughn/Johnny Winter- inspired axe and serves up his soulful voice for Blue Steele. 

Kevin Bailey, bass guitar- 6 foot even, vegetarian but not vegan, sporting dreds but not rastafarian, smooth but many sided, an artist, roots in reggae, with classical soul, has been in such musical projects as those opening for the clash at RFK, has strode the stage of the Kennedy center, and echoed the halls of countless a venue, his 5 strings bursting the infinite and majestic grape of 7 notes and 12 tones of ethereal delight. He throws down from city Baltimore.

Dave VanNostrand - Once the house drummer at the Mustang Ranch in Reno Nevada. Dave flavors his playing his own blend of tasty chops influenced mostly by those whom he calls "the big three: Buddy Rich, Mitch Mitchell, and the dude who drummed on the Roman galley ship in Ben Hur." He is the Blue Steele rhythm section.


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